Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 3 June 2013.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office
(1) how much his Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) Government Car Service, (b) private hire vehicles, (c) taxis, (d) rail, (e) aviation and (f) other means in each year of the current Parliament;
(2) what his Department's budget for ministerial travel for (a) the Government Car Service, (b) private hire vehicles, (c) taxis, (d) rail, (e) aviation and (f) other is for (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15 and (iii) 2015-16.
This Government have slashed the cost to the taxpayer of Government cars compared with the costs before the last general election.
For details of how much my Department has spent on the Government Car Service, I refer the hon. Member to the information published in the annual written ministerial statement:
2009/10
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101028/wmstext/101028m0001.htm#10102827000372
2010/11
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201212/cmhansrd/cm120116/wmstext/120116m0001.htm#12011611000194
2011/12
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm121220/wmstext/121220m0001.htm#12122056000216
Details of the costs for the Government Car Service for 2012-13 will be published in the normal way later this year.
Records of other travel by my Department are categorised alongside other spend and are not held centrally. As was the case under previous Administrations, the use of taxis in the Cabinet Office is only permitted in line with strict departmental guidance.
The Cabinet Office publishes, on a quarterly basis, details of Cabinet Office Ministers' overseas travel.
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